Plot Twist Story Prompts: Friendship Ends

Plot twist story prompts aren't meant for the beginning or the end of stories. Rather, they're for forcing big and small turns in the anticipated trajectory of a story. This is to make it more interesting for the readers and writers alike.

Each week, I'll provide a new prompt to help twist your story. Find last week's prompt, Hidden Admiration, here.

For today's prompt, end a friendship. That is, take two (or more) characters who are friends and sever the relationship. And then, dive into what happens next.

(Creating Memorable Friends for Main Characters.)

Say what you want about ending romantic relationships, but it often feels like ending a friendship is so much more brutal to experience. Maybe that's because friendships are often forged on a deeper, more personal level. So when that connection breaks, it often shatters in a million pieces.

For this plot twist, consider if there are other friends in the friendship circle who have to choose sides, and how does that impact them? Is there any room for repairing the relationship? Are the ex-friends now enemies (or are they just trying their best to act like the other doesn't exist)? There's so much to consider.

So end a friendship, and see what happens next.

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Have you hit a wall on your work-in-progress? Maybe you know where you want your characters to end up, but don’t know how to get them there. Or, the story feels a little stale but you still believe in it. Adding a plot twist might be just the solution.

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